clunker
Example Sentences
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For instance, your friend may have just laughed when you offered to replace their old clunker with a new car.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Game 3 was a one-sided clunker, but Game 1, Game 2 and Game 4 all went to sudden-death OT —hockey’s equivalent of dangling you over a bridge by your shoelaces while laughing maniacally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2025
Unlike the losses in Cleveland and Detroit that ensured this trip would be a clunker, this wasn’t about fight.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
Not that many fans back in the Pacific Northwest were watching or listening when Leo Rivas made the final out to end the 2-hour, 39-minute clunker.
From Seattle Times • May 9, 2024
Art had a gun, a pre-Second World War surplus clunker of a thing, which he kept in the barn.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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